Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Their purpose is that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914."

"I think that a more suitable date can be selected for this purpose, and that future events will ordain the proper date for such a commemoration."

"I consider the commemoration of the day fixed in the measure to be singularly inappropriate."

"The Three Great Allies expressed their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemies by sea, land, and air."